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Charles Snedden
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Charles Snedden (1932-2015) was born in Bo'ness. He was educated at Bo'ness Academy. Mr Snedden joined Bo'ness Town Council and West Lothian County Council in 1959. He was Provost of Bo'ness between 1964 and 1975. From 1972 until 1975 he was Chairman of West Lothian Education Authority. In 1975 he became Vice-Convener of Central Regional Council and Convener in 1986. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1964 and was awarded an OBE in 1983. He is also a member of the Order of St John.
During his long career in local government he was a member of various associations: 1978 Member of the Council of Management of the Scottish Special Housing Association 1983 Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Special Housing Association 1986 Member of the Court of Stirling University 1988 Honorary Member of the Burns Federation 1989 Member of the Board of Scottish Homes He is also Honorary President of Bo'ness F.C., member of Kinneil Colliery Silver Band, member of West Lothian Golf Club and Trustee and Director of Bo'ness Heritage Trust. [Source: Charles Sneddon papers] Charles Sneddon, petrochemical operative and local politician: born Bo'ness 28 March 1932; OBE 1984; married 1953 Margaret Kidd (died 2014; one daughter, one son, and one son deceased); Provost of Bo'ness 1964-75; died Larbert 7 March 2015. Vice-Convenor of Central regional Council. Also member of West Lothian County Council before 1975. [Source: Obituary, The Independent, 24 Jun 2015 and Obituary. The Scotsman, 12 Mar 2015] |
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Lothian Printers
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George Cadell Stewart
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George Cadell Stewart (1844-1913) was born in Carriden. He started off working in the office of his relation, Cadell of Grange, as a clerk. His idea to supply the coal firms with ready cut pit props made his fortune to the extent that Bo'ness was at one time known colloquially as 'pitpropopolis'. He was a partner in the firm Messrs Love & Stewart Ltd.
He was provost of Bo'ness from 1894 to 1906. He also instituted the first Bo'ness Fair in 1897 and gifted the fountain which formerly stood in Victoria Park, Bo'ness to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. |
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West Lothian County Council. County Architect
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Robert Dollar
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Businessman (1844-1932) Born in Falkirk, emigrated to Canada aged 14. Worked in a barrel-making factory in Ottawa and then a lumber camp. By age 22 he ran a lumber camp of 50 men, then moved to Michigan to set up his own company, the British Canadian Lumber Company. Moved to California in 1888 and opened a lumber mill. Started a shipping line in 1901. Granted Freedom of Falkirk in 1912. Dollar donated money for the purchase of Dollar Park to the town, as well as money to buy library books, bells for Falkirk Old Parish Church, fountain in Victoria Park. Robert Dollar financed Falkirk's first free library which opened in 1888. It was sited in the Y.M.C.A. on the corner of New Market Street and Glebe Street, and remained the town's library until a new building opened in 1902. He also donated the money for the construction of Falkirk Public Baths. The saga of Falkirk's public baths was a long one beginning in 1905 when Robert Dollar decided to donate a sum towards their construction. The money was eventually diverted to buying Dollar Park and Mr Dollar's money was never used for its original purpose. The baths were eventually opened in 1932 in the Pleasance, 27 years after Robert Dollar made his offer. He also donated a set of bells for Falkirk Parish Church in 1926. The Dollar chimes consisted of 13 bells, the largest of which weighed 3000 lbs. The dedication of the bells was conducted by Rev. Alexander Loudon.
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Union Canal Project
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West Lothian County Council
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West Lothian County Council was set up in 1889 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 and abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973. Part of the geographical area which had been in West Lothian was put into Falkirk District and Central Region - the landward area around the former Burgh of Boness which was also put into Falkirk District and Central Region. County councils were established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict., c. 50). County councils were made up of elected councillors and took over powers from the commissioners of supply, county road trusts, and local authorities set up under the Diseases of Animals' Acts. They also took over some administrative powers from the justices of the peace but not their licensing or judicial powers. The responsibilities of the commissioners of supply for police matters were transferred to standing joint committees made up of commissioners of supply and county councillors. Parochial boards who had been responsible for duties under the Public Health Acts had such powers transferred to district committees of county councils. The 1889 Act made it compulsory for county councils to appoint full time county medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors. Further reform of county councils came in the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. V, c. 25). The 1929 Act changed some of the functions of county councils and set up a system of district councils which had certain functions assigned to them by the county council. County councils were abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973 (c. 65). The powers of county councils were transferred to regional councils and district councils.
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Trustees of John Russel Trust
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These are the trustees of Provost John Russel of Mayfield who is the son of James Russel I of Russel & Aitken.
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Roy Wood
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Born 1937. Studied at Bradford College of Art 1957-63. Taught at Lancaster College of Art 1963-65. Now lives in West Lothian and taught printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art. [appointed 1965] Exhibited at RSA 1967 and again in 1986.
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Barony Players
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The Barony Players were formed in 1954 from the Carriden Players and other groups in the vicinity of Bo'ness which had their beginnings immediately after the War. In 1964 they were granted a lease by the West Lothian Education Committee of the Old Borrowstoun School, which they converted into an attractive, intimate little theatre
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Bo'ness Gas Light Co Ltd
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Based in Bo'ness, West Lothian, the Bo'ness Gas Light Company took over the responsibilities of the Bo'ness Coal Gas Light Company. Bo'ness Gas Light Company was incorporated in 1896 with the registration number SC003384, and was dissolved in 1949. [Ref: GB234/BT2/3384]
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BP Grangemouth
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The first oil works in the world were opened in Bathgate, West Lothian, in 1851 producing oil from shale or coal. However, many Scottish works closed in 1859 as the world's first oil well was sunk in Pennsylvania in the USA and the price of oil dropped. By 1919 the six surviving companies united under the management of the newly formed Scottish Oils. In the same year Scottish Oils was acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, later to become BP. The BP refinery in Grangemouth was in operation by 1924.
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Linlithgow Union Canal Society
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The Linlithgow Union Canal Society, a voluntary body, was founded in 1975 to promote and encourage the restoration and use of the Union Canal, particularly in the vicinity of Linlithgow, West Lothian The Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal was constructed between 1818 and 1822. It ran from Edinburgh to Falkirk where it was joined by a series of locks to the Forth and Clyde Canal. Designed and built by Hugh Baird with advice from Thomas Telford, the canal is famous for having three magnificent aqueducts and Scotland's only canal tunnel.
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Bo'ness Burgh
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Bo'ness (Borrowstounness) was created a Burgh of Regality in 1668, a Burgh of Barony in 1748 and a Police Burgh in 1883. The Burgh was incorporated in 1903. Local government originated with the Bo'ness Harbour Trustees in 1744. The Trustees became Town and Harbour Trustees in 1843 with enlarged powers. In 1883 the Trustees were replaced by Police and Burgh Commissioners who were in turn replaced in 1903 by Bo'ness Town Council. In 1975 Bo'ness and the surrounding area became part of Falkirk District. Previously the surrounding area had been part of the County of West Lothian.
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John Louden
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John Louden was born in Airdrie but grew up in Reddingmuirhead, Falkirk, where he attended Liddle's school and became a pupil teacher there. After training as a teacher he taught in Meigle, Perthshire, and Bathgate, West Lothian, before returning to Reddingmuirhead. In 1902 he was appointed head teacher at Redding Intermediate School from which he retired in 1925. He was also an active Freemason and a member of Lodge Polmont No 793; a member of Grangemouth Parish Council and later of Stirling County Council; and an Elder at Polmont North Parish Church. He died in 1933.
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Burns Family
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The Burns family of Falkirk originated in Boness, West Lothian, where John Burns senior was a customs collector. His eldest son, John Burns studied law at Edinburgh University and became a lawyer in Falkirk in the 1790s. This John Burns had several sons, one of whom also became a lawyer and, and another became a singer, studying in Italy, despite parental disapproval. John Burns was also one of the first elders of the Free Church in Falkirk. The family were connected to Rev Robert Burns who was Secretary of the Glasgow Colonial Society and was instrumental in taking the Disruption to the churches in Canada
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Cochrane & French
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John Heeps
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David Russell
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F Milson Dixon
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